Twenty years ago, AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis were the deadliest pandemics on earth. Polio and smallpox had been eradicated in relatively recent memory, and these three scourges were — we believed — next in line. World leaders, local communities, civil society, health organizations and the private sector all came together to create the Global Fund as a way to pool their resources, expertise and reach in service of that goal.
So much has happened since then.
In many ways we’ve made enormous progress. To date, the Global Fund partnership has raised and invested more than $50 billion to fight these devastating diseases, saving more than 40 million lives and reducing the combined death rate from the three diseases by more than half. Every three years, the fund is replenished by the 193 member nations of the UN. And that replenishment is happening right now. This
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